Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and ... flourished thanks to Rolfe’s tobacco, and his marriage brought a short ...

By this time, Smith had returned to England. Pocahontas eased relations between Indians and colonists by marrying widower John Rolfe, the founder of English tobacco-growing in Virginia.

The real-life romantic partner of Pocahontas was a tobacco planter named John Rolfe ... that she met Rolfe and they wed, suggesting that she may have been forced into the marriage and life ...

While some 19th-century images of Pocahontas highlighted her marriage to John Rolfe, countless others focused instead on her feelings toward John Smith. Most historians doubt that a full-fledged ...

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During her captivity at Jamestown, Pocahontas falls in love with an English settler, John Rolfe. Was this coincidence or was it strategy? It's hard to know. What we do know is that the marriage ...

John Rolfe - and she and Smith sail away to Britain together at the end of the film. History, however, tells a different and darker tale. To start, Pocahontas was just a nickname, meaning "the ...

Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere ... Christianity by her captors and then married John Rolfe. He had agonised over marrying a ‘heathen ...